Driving Deep Decarbonization

Moderator: Robert C. Armstrong, Director, MIT Energy Initiative and Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT

Speakers:

Jake Jurewicz, Manager of Corporate Strategy, Exelon

Melanie Kenderdine, Principal, Energy Futures Initiative; Former Director of the Office of Energy Policy, U.S. Department of Energy

Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment; Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering; Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University

Massimiliano Pieri, Clean-Tech Director, Eni Next & VP Cooperation with MIT

Dennis Whyte, Director, Plasma Science and Fusion Center;
Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT

Moderator: Sergey Paltsev, Deputy Director,
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Senior Research Scientist, MIT Energy Initiative and Director of Energy-at-Scale Center

Speakers: 

Barbara J. Burger, President, Chevron Technology Ventures

Erin Smith, Research Assistant, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT

Jacob J. Thiart, Manager of the Catalyst and Process Technology Division, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering

Eric A. Thumma, Director of New Business Offshore Wind, Avangrid Renewables

Moderator: Dharik Mallapragada, Research Scientist,
MIT Energy Initiative

Speakers: 

Traci Kraus, Director of Government Relations, Cummins

Yang Shao-Horn, W.M. Keck Professor of Energy, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT

C. Cem Tasan, Associate Professor, Department of
Materials Science and Engineering, MIT

Integrating renewables into the grid: Exploring policy choices
Integrating renewables into the grid at scale requires us to re-think policy, regulation, and business models. In this, we session will explore critical issues that must be addressed as renewable penetration on the grid rises – including the implications for subsidies, the role of consumer preference, and mitigating intermittency with storage and novel control strategies.

Moderator: Robert Stoner, Deputy Director,
MIT Energy Initiative

Speakers:

Marija Ilić, Senior Staff, Energy Systems Group 73, MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems, MIT

Valerie J. Karplus, Assistant Professor, Global Economics and Management, MIT

Christopher Knittel, George P. Shultz Professor of Applied Economics, MIT

Richard Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management and Professor of Economics Emeritus, MIT

Jessika Trancik, Associate Professor, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT

Moderator: Christoph Reinhart, Director,
Building Technology Program; Head, Sustainable Design Lab;
Professor, Department of Architecture, MIT

Speakers:

Anuradha Annaswamy, Founder and Director,
Active-Adaptive Control Laboratory, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, MIT

Mark Goulthorpe, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, MIT

Caitlin Mueller, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, MIT

Moderator: Martha Broad, Executive Director,
MIT Energy Initiative

Speakers:

Audun Botterud, Principal Research Scientist, Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems, MIT

Fikile R. Brushett, Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT

Betar Gallant, ABS Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

Zachary P. Smith, Joseph R. Mares Career Development Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT

Karen Tapia-Ahumada, Research Scientist,
MIT Energy Initiative

Moderator: Robert C. Armstrong, Director, MIT Energy Initiative and Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT

Speakers:

Antoine Allanore, Associate Professor of Metallurgy, Department of Material Science and Engineering, MIT

Katerina Ioannidou, Research Scientist, MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

Karthish Manthiram, Warren K. Lewis Career Development Professor in Chemical Engineering, MIT

Kripa K. Varanasi, Professor, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, MIT

Kivanç Zaimler, Head of Energy Group, Sabanci Holding

Speakers:

David Keith, Assistant Professor, System Dynamics, MIT

Joanna Moody, Research Program Manager,
Mobility Systems Center, MIT Energy Initiative

Jinhua Zhao, Edward H. and Joyce Linde Associate Professor of Transportation and City Planning; Chair,
PhD Program; Director, JTL Urban Mobility Lab at MIT

Moderator: Emre Gençer, Research Scientist,
MIT Energy Initiative

Speakers:

Maryam Arbabzadeh, Postdoctoral Associate,
MIT Energy Initiative

Tapajyoti Ghosh, Postdoctoral Associate,
MIT Energy Initiative

Naga Srujana Goteti, Postdoctoral Associate,
MIT Energy Initiative

•  Mobility Systems –This session is for members only. 
•  Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) – This session is open to all conference participants.
  Location: Multipurpose Room, Media Lab E14, 6th Floor
  • Keynote Address: Brine Management
    Meagan Mauter, Associate Professor of
    Civil & Environmental Engineering and Center Fellow,
    Stanford University
  • The Economics of BECCS Deployment
    Howard J. Herzog, Executive Director, CCUS Center;
    Senior Research Engineer, MIT Energy Initiative
  • Electrification of the Carbon Cycle
    Karthish Manthiram, Warren K. Lewis Career Development Professor in Chemical Engineering, MIT

• Mobility Systems
  Location: Silverman Skyline Room, Media Lab E14,
  6th Floor
  • 1:10- 2:00 pm – This session is open to all conference participants. 

  Hydrogen as a Transportation Fuel
  Yang Shao-Horn, Co-director, MITEI Low-Carbon Energy Center for Energy Storage; Professor,
  MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering

  • 2:00- 4:15 pm – This session is for members only. 
• Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage – This session is for members only.

1:30-4:30 pm

• Electric Power Systems modeling capabilities session – This session is open to all conference participants
  (there will be an Electric Power Systems Center workshop on November 20).

Location: E15-283A
1:30-4:30 pm

• Welcome and brief overview of MITEI Electric Power Systems Center
• Overview of the DRE model
  Karen Tapia-Ahumada, Research Scientist,
  MIT Energy Initiative

• Overview of the RNM and REM Models
  Pablo Duenas Martinez, Research Scientist,
  MIT Energy Initiative

• GenX model
  Nestor Sepulveda, PhD student, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT

• Panel discussion and Q&A
  Moderator: Dharik Mallapragada, Research Scientist, MIT Energy Initiative
• Solar Energy –This session is open to all conference participants.

Location: Multipurpose Room, Media Lab E14, 6th Floor
1:30-4:30 pm

• Opening remarks
  Vladimir Bulović, Co-director, MITEI Low-Carbon Energy Center for Solar Energy; Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT

• PV value and cost targets
  Patrick Brown, Postdoctoral Researcher,
  MIT Energy Initiative

• Next-generation of PVs: Flexible and lightweight solar photovoltaics (PV) for broad deployment
  Vladimir Bulović, Co-director, MITEI Low-Carbon Energy Center for Solar Energy; Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT

• GridEdge Technologies
  Dane deQuilettes, Postdoctoral Associate,
  Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT
  Nicole Moody, Doctoral Degree Candidate, Department of Chemistry, MIT
  Anurag Panda, Postdoctoral Associate,
  Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT
  Richard Swartwout, PhD student and Tata Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering, MIT

• Silicon cost reduction and grid-scale storage
  Göksin Kavlak, Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for Data, Systems and Society, MIT
  Jessika Trancik, Associate Professor, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT

• Q&A